Clack! Clack! Clack!
The head in the skeletal girl's arms kept clicking and clacking.
Wang Quan grabbed her head and shook it hard a few times. "Woman, slander me again, and I'll simmer you into bone broth."
The skeletal girl froze, then asked meekly, "You can hear now?"
Wang Quan sneered. "If I couldn't, why would I have slapped you across the face?"
The skeletal girl gave an awkward laugh. "Wang Quan, I never said you had an innate sacred blood-bag physique, much less that your brain was full of water."
"Everything you just heard was an illusion."
"A tiny little problem has cropped up in this world, after all. What you hear and see isn't necessarily real."
"For instance, I might look like your petite, adorable fiancée, but I'm actually a peerless powerhouse with arms broad enough for horses to race along and a chest that could hold hundreds of millions of soldiers."
"Hit me again, and I'll get angry!"
As she spoke, she even rolled something up along her stark-white arms. "You have to believe me!"
"When I get angry, I'm so ruthless I even hit myself."
Wang Quan nodded. "Mm, got it."
"Go play for now!"
"I need to keep cultivating, then see through the splendor of this mortal world and strive to attain great liberation and great freedom."
The skeletal girl hugged her own head and nodded vigorously. "All right!"
"I'll go play, then. Remember to prepare my betrothal gifts!"
"Mm!"
Clack! Clack!
The skeletal girl left, scurrying over to the other skeletal boys and girls, where she aggrievedly told her friends what had just happened.
Finally, she said sadly, "I only said a few slightly excessive things, and he gave me a whopping slap."
"He's so heartless."
"I don't want to marry him anymore."
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